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WinterGreen Research announces that it has published a new study Mission Critical Middleware Messaging Market, Shares, Strategies and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2013 to 2019. The 2013 study has 434 pages, 144 tables and figures. Worldwide markets are poised to achieve significant growth as middleware messaging becomes the foundation for cloud computing and enterprise participation in mobile markets. Mobile device messaging and messaging for the Internet of things are driving markets.

WinterGreen Research announces that it has published a new study Cloud Platform Infrastructure, Social Media and Systems of Engagement Market, Shares, Strategies and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2013-2019. The 2013 study has 673 pages, 165 tables and figures. Worldwide markets are poised to achieve continuing growth as the cloud computing systems are put in place to support mobile end point information collection.

WinterGreen Research announces that it has published a new study Language Translation Software Market, Shares, Strategies and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2013 - 2019. The 2014 study has 536 pages, 151 tables and figures. Worldwide markets are poised to achieve continuing growth as the language translation software systems are put in place to support mobile end point information collections that are localized.

WinterGreen Research announces that it has published a new study IBM Software Innovation Market, Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2013 to 2019. The 2013 study has 460 pages, 193 tables and figures. Worldwide markets are poised to achieve continuing growth as the enterprise seeks to develop new products in response to changing technology and changing market conditions.

p>WinterGreen Research announces that it has published a new study DSL Chips Market, Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2013 to 2018. The 2013 study has 232 pages, 72 tables and figures. Worldwide DSL chip markets continue to achieve significant growth in spite of the dire predictions of market demise.

WinterGreen Research announces that it has published a new study Optical Transceiver, Transmitter, Receiver and Transponder Components Market, Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2013 to 2019. The 2013 study has 453 pages, 130 tables and figures. Worldwide optical transceiver markets are poised to achieve significant growth as the data in networks expands exponentially. As cloud systems proliferate and wireless data takes hold the efficiencies brought by high speed end-to-end optical networks are needed by carriers and in the data center.

WinterGreen Research announces that it has published a new study Optical Amplifiers Market, Shares, Strategies and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2013 to 2019. The 2013 study has 375 pages, 100 tables and figures. Worldwide optical amplifier markets are poised to achieve significant growth as the data in networks expands exponentially. As cloud systems proliferate and wireless data takes hold the efficiencies brought by high speed end-to-end optical networks are needed by carriers and in the data center.

WinterGreen Research announces that it has published a new study Optical Transceivers: Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2016 to 2022. The 2016 study has 723 pages, 217 tables and figures. The vendors in the optical transceivers industry have invested in high-quality technology and processes to develop leading edge broadband network capability.

WinterGreen Research announces that it has published a new study Wireless Infrastructure Market, Shares, Strategies and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2013 to 2019. Next generation mission critical systems are leveraging new technology. The 2013 study has 554 pages, 245 tables and figures. Worldwide Wireless Infrastructure markets are poised to achieve significant growth as Building out core networks and backhaul for smart phones.

WinterGreen Research announces that it has published a new study Wireless Phone Chargers Market, Shares, Strategy and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2013 to 2019. The 2013 study has 314 pages, 125 tables and figures. Worldwide markets are poised to achieve significant growth as wireless charging pads permit users to charge the phone without disconnecting/reconnecting cables to the handset. Charging can be done anywhere just by setting the phone down, inductive charges will be in restaurants, kiosks, tables, night stands, hotels, airports, and public places.

WinterGreen Research announces that it has published a new study Mid IR Sensors: Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2016 to 2022. Next generation Mid IR Sensors are leveraging new technology. The 2016 study has 885 pages, 390 tables and figures. Worldwide mid IR sensor markets are poised to achieve significant growth as the Internet of things creates demand for more and more sensors. Everything needs a sensor to be connected to the Internet and available to smart phone apps.

WinterGreen Research announces that it has published a new study LTE Wireless Infrastructure Market, Shares, Strategies and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2013 to 2019. Next generation systems are leveraging new LTE technology. The 2013 study has 410 pages, 198 tables and figures. Worldwide LTE Wireless Infrastructure markets are poised to achieve significant growth as Building out core networks and backhaul for smart phones.

WinterGreen Research announces that it has published a new study Small Cells and Femtocells Market, Shares, Strategies and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2013 to 2019. The 2013 study has 413 pages, 162 tables and figures. Worldwide markets are poised to achieve significant growth as small cell and femtocells and trucks permit users to implement automated driving.

WinterGreen Research announces that it has published a new study Wireless Sensor Networks Market Shares, Strategies and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2013 to 2019. The 2013 study has 640 pages, 266 tables and figures. Worldwide markets are poised to achieve significant growth as the Wireless Sensor Network is used to implement the Internet of things.

‘National Broadband Plans: Deployment Models & their Effectiveness in Improving Broadband Penetration,’ a Research Report by Pyramid Research, provides information on national broadband plans and strategies of several countries across the globe. The report also includes projections of growth trends of broadband penetration and lines over 2014-2019 of different regions. It also has charts depicting correlation between fixed-broadband penetration and GDP per capital of several countries. The report includes forecast of mobile broadband over 2010-2019 for the regions.

‘Tackling the Russian Crisis: Sound Operational Performance Keeps Mobile Operators’ Focus on Data Services,’ a Telecom Insider Report by Pyramid Research, highlights the impacts of the economic crisis on the Russian telecom market. The report discusses the impact of the economic crisis on the Russian telecom market (mobile telephony market) and then its presents the strategy adopted by the leading mobile operators MTS, MegaFon, VimpelCom and Tele2, to drive service adoption, device adoption and maintaining financial stability.

‘Smartphone Trends in Latin America: The Impact of Government Policies and Regulatory Intervention,’ a Telecom Insider Report by Pyramid Research, examines and sizes the handset and smartphone markets at the global and Latin American levels. The report discusses the major handset-related regulations implemented in the region, and it then presents case studies of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, analyzing the impact of imposed regulations. The report concludes with a summary of key findings and a set of recommendations. Key Findings Imposing hefty duties on handset imports is a viable option to foster local industry growth.

“Enterprise Mobile Value-Added Services in Latin America: Major Forces Driving and Inhibiting MVAS for MNOs” a Telecom Insider Report by Pyramid Research. The first section of this report presents a set of definitions and taxonomy for mobile value-added services (MVAS). The report then presents the market context including MVAS adoption trends based on an enterprise survey, and looks at the major forces driving and inhibiting the adoption of MVAS across enterprise segments in the region. The report also presents three case studies from MNOs that provide an in-depth view of the solutions they are implementing in the MVAS space.

‘Mobile Commerce in Latin America: Opportunities for MNOs Beyond Payment,’ a Telecom Insider Report by Pyramid Research, briefly describes the concept of m-commerce and showcases the m-commerce value chain, which includes mobile-responsive and mobile-based merchants. We discuss the drivers and challenges for MNOs to increase their presence within the m-commerce value chain in Latin America, analyzing the impact on MNOs under a technology, demand and competitive perspective. We conclude with some case studies and outline the opportunities to MNOs to improve their positioning within the m-commerce space by leveraging mobile merchants’ experience in Latin America.

‘The Impact of Declining Mobile Roaming Prices in Western Europe: MNO Strategies to Seize Market Opportunities,’ a new Telecom Insider Report by Pyramid Research, offers an overview of the intra-European roaming market in Western Europe and highlights the main strategies implemented by mobile operators to mitigate the decrease in roaming prices. It then looks into detail at three specific markets and presents the opportunities arising from lower roaming prices. Key Findings The mobile market in Western Europe has reached high penetration levels (143% in 2014 and 157% expected in 2019) resulting from fierce competition at national levels.

“Mobile Payments: Revenue Models and Market Strategies,” a Thematic Research Report by Pyramid Research, examines the predominant service & revenue models in the mobile payments arena, as well as the market approach of selected players, in order to identify effective strategies and key success factors. The analysis is built upon in-depth case studies of selected mobile payments services around the world, including Alipay Wallet, Boku, Dwolla, LevelUp, RURU, Paym, Starbucks and Apple Pay. Our analysis concludes with recommendations on best strategic approaches to maximize the mobile payments revenue opportunity.

‘Carrier Enterprise Services in Latin America: Creating the Cloud Telco, a Telecom Insider Report by Pyramid Research, The first section of this Telecom Insider Report examines the market context, provides some basic definitions and sizes the cloud services market at a regional level in three service categories: SaaS, IaaS and CaaS. The report then analyzes the major forces driving and inhibiting the adoption of cloud services across enterprise segments in the region. The report also presents case studies that provide an in-depth view of what telcos are doing in the cloud space. It concludes with a number of key findings and a set of recommendations

OTT Video in Emerging Markets: Monetization Strategies and 5-Year Revenue Opportunity,” a Research Report by Pyramid Research, analyzes the revenue potential of OTT video services across emerging markets in Africa and the Middle East, Asia Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America, identifying and mapping key OTT video players from local telcos and payTV providers to pure-play OTTs, and best practices for differentiation and OTT video monetization. The report provides 5-year projections for SVoD and TVoD accounts and revenue by region and for key countries including Brazil, China, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia and South Africa.

This annual publication offers a wealth of information on the trends and developments taking place in the m-commerce and c-commerce sectors. The publication provides analyses of the issues surrounding the growth of e-commerce, including e-banking, e-payments and online advertising. Information on mobile commerce developments are also provided, including m-payments and m-banking, included statistics and forecasts for both the e-commerce and m-commerce sectors.

The incumbent operator Telstra continues to benefit from the company’s turnaround being implemented by its current CEO. It dominates the fixed-line and broadband sectors, and is also the main player in the mobile sector, having been the first to take advantage of mobile broadband opportunities with its Next G network.

‘Data Center and Managed Security Services in Latin America: Leveraging Telcos’ Services Portfolios,’ a Telecom Insider Report by Pyramid Research, briefly describes the concept of data center outsourcing and managed security services putting them into the telcos’ context. We discuss in detail the main drivers and challenges for these markets analyzing the direct impact on telcos under a technology, demand and competition perspective. We introduce some case studies and outline what telcos must do to improve their positioning in the market.

Already more than a decade ago BuddeComm started talking about the great potential of Application Service Providers (ASPs) but, together with the data centres, they were dunked in the dotcom crisis. Even then we indicated that the concept was sound and that it had great potential.

The one single feature that characterises the Thai telecom industry has arguably been the stop-start approach to sector reform and re-regulation. An important step was taken with the Telecommunications Act being adopted as law back in 2000, but over the last decade or so successive governments have moved slowly on its implementation.

After a period of uncertainty, the Indonesian telecom sector has settled into what looks like a healthy development phase. This country of around 250 million people presents a huge potential market; however, it must overcome some particularly big challenges if it is to successfully continue the building of the telecommunications infrastructure required to support a large population spread over what is a uniquely complex geography.

The Latin American and the Caribbean regions contain a number of markets where mobile telecom services, both voice and data, have become the preferred communications platform for consumers. In a few markets, such as Haiti, the fixed-line infrastructure is so poor that operators can effectively sideline the sector and concentrate their investments in mobile networks alone.

Growth in the mobile segment of the Philippines telecom market has been moderating after years of strong expansion. Initially the slowing in the market was partly due to a general downturn in the Philippine economy; however, even as the economy picked up, it became obvious that mobile subscriber numbers were continuing to increase but at a generally slower pace.

Russia’s huge and fully liberalised telecom market is supported by a population of about 143 million. Although the market is dominated by the western regions where the main cities and economic centres are concentrated, efforts continue to be made to improve infrastructure in remote areas, where many smaller towns still lack mobile or internet services.

The number of mobile broadband accesses has expanded steadily as users continue to add tablets, modems and phones as alternative communication methods. The sector is a dynamic contributor to the Australian economy, providing a range of productivity benefits. A growing proportion of mobile broadband subscribers is migrating from 3G to LTE. With Telstra and Optus having invested in 700MHz spectrum, the reach of their LTE services are set to increase substantially from 2015 when their spectrum allocations are made available. Near national coverage within a couple of years will see wider take-up from consumers.

South Africa’s telecom sector boasts the continent’s most advanced networks in terms of technology deployed and services provided. In a virtually saturated voice market, four mobile networks – Vodacom, MTN, Cell C and Telkom SA – are competing for market share in the next growth wave, mobile broadband. 3G/4G mobile services now rival DSL fixed-line offerings in terms of both speed and price and have consequently outpaced them in terms of subscriber growth.

The growth of digital platforms and services has resulted in the global media industry changing irrevocably. What the shareholders in the traditional media sectors often fail to understand is that the game is no longer directed at building up big revenues upon which to build future business models.

Internet market in Uzbekistan is beginning to shift from early stage to the stage of “familiarization. The State attaches a great importance to the country’s information and communication technologies development. The number of the UZ domain Internet resources increased by 16 percent, or by 1,500 sites compared to early 2010.

The M2M Southeast Asia In-Depth - Indonesia covers the sector overview, telephony landscape, and companies and their publicly known associations with cellular M2M technology in the country. It also covers the market trends and outlook, analysis of key end-user verticals for the M2M technology such as healthcare; retail; telematics and transportation; energy production, distribution and consumption; industrial, defense and surveillance; and others, including consumer electronics, financial services, tourism, ecology and government, plus the profile of leading players.

The M2M Southeast Asia In-Depth - Malaysia covers the sector overview, telephony landscape, and companies and their publicly known associations with cellular M2M technology in the country. It also covers the market trends and outlook, analysis of key end-user verticals for the M2M technology such as healthcare; retail; telematics and transportation; energy production, distribution and consumption; industrial, defense and surveillance; and others, including consumer electronics, financial services, tourism, ecology and government, plus the profile of leading players.

Immigration and taxation in most countries are often in conflict with the concept of globalization, and are prime obstacles for entrepreneurs to venture into new markets. As a result, countries are increasingly beginning discussions of the negative impact of such regulations on trade, with the aim of relaxing them. For instance, Chile and Canada have introduced startup visas to attract entrepreneurs from around the world.

Mobile healthcare is on its way to become a multi-billion dollar market. With digitalized patients' records, huge spendings and ubiquitous mobile phones the possibilities of improving patients’ outcome and reduce health care cost has huge potential. App publishers on the other hand report serious problems to generate enough revenues to finance their ideas.

The report maps out the future development of the mHealth applications market. It highlights 10 key trends that will shape the mHealth market until 2017. The report also provides a detailed outlook on future market size and revenue models.

The data package of the “Smartphone App Market Monitor” serves as a comprehensive source of information on the most important smart-devices (i.e. smartphones and tablets) and app stores market trends. To keep pace with the latest trends, amend and revise forecasts, as well as inform readers about key topics and latest news, this report is updated and extended each quarter since Q4 2009.

The worldwide smartphones market is growing every year. For the year 2014, market grew by staggering 25% on a year on year basis. The smartphones shipments in the year 2014 crossed 300 million shipments unit mark which is fascinating news for the new entrants in this market.

An ongoing platform and device fragmentation challenges developers and increases complexity and cost of mobile application development. Fragmentation not only includes operating systems and their different releases, but devices as well. Currently there are three major approaches to simplify application development: HTML5, multi-platform development tools and industry specific white-label solutions. The report compares multi-platform and white–label solutions of 60 key players in the market.

The Enterprise Mobile App Market Status Report 2012 provides a comprehensive overview of the market for enterprise mobility. It provides data, key market figures, technological and social trends and an analysis on the enterprise mobile app market.

Vehicle manufacturers are today faced with a large number of options for enabling connected cars, and must balance often conflicting factors. SBD’s latest report The impact of changing M2M strategies on the Connected Car clarifies the different solutions for enabling connected car services and their adoption in China, Europe and the USA.

Considering its thriving ecosystem, spectrum flexibility and performance metrics, public safety organizations worldwide recognize LTE as the de-facto standard for mission critical mobile broadband communications.With spectrum already allocated, public safety agencies in the Middle East and the U.S have already begun to operate private LTE networks. Signals and Systems Telecom estimates that the installed base of private public safety LTE base stations (eNode Bs) will reach nearly 80,000 globally by the end of 2017, following a CAGR of nearly 80% between 2012 and 2017, and will serve more than 1 Million private public safety LTE subscribers worldwide.

Automotive Apps promise to unshackle in-car infotainment systems by allowing consumers to download new features and services during the lifetime of the car. However, to enable this evolution vehicle manufacturers and suppliers are faced with a dizzying array of technologies and an uncertainty of which solutions will become mainstream.

Once an emerging service, prepaid communications is now considered a mature offering. However, it has evolved beyond communications to include content, applications and commerce. From a mobile commerce perspective, mobile shopping is evolving as well with merchants increasingly recognizing the need to capture the attention of consumers on-the-go, drive purchase decisions, build brand loyalty, and support ongoing customer/business relationships.

WebRTC is an OpenSource project which enables web browsers to communicate in a real-time manner via simple JavaScript API. The project is freely available for several browsers and platforms. The definition was drafted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to enable browser-to-browser applications for voice calling, video chat, and P2P file sharing without plugins.

WinterGreen Research announces that it has published a new study Tablets: Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018. The 2012 study has 334 pages, 104 tables and figures. Worldwide tablet markets continue to achieve significant growth as devices are used to access the Internet, provide large screen visualization of Internet digital data, and provide significant ease of use for a computing device.

WinterGreen Research announces that it has published a new study Smartphones: Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018. The 2012 study has 345 pages, 105 tables and figures. Worldwide smartphone markets continue to achieve significant growth as devices access the Internet, achieve almost universal penetration, and support machine to machine (M to M) communications. Feature sets continue to evolve.

WinterGreen Research announces that it has published a new study on Cloud Office and Collaboration Productivity Applications. The 2012 study has 690 pages, 177 tables and figures. Worldwide markets are poised to achieve steady growth as mobile devices become the standard for client computing.

WinterGreen Research announces that it has a new study on Telepresence Equipment. The 2012 study has 605 pages, 302 tables and figures. Worldwide markets are poised to achieve significant growth. Telepresence equipment represents a quantum shift in the ability to communicate remotely with video connectivity. It leverages HD TV capability to interconnect two people or teams of people seeking to share information or further evolve a common experience.

WinterGreen Research announces that it has a new study on switch fabrics. The 2010 study has 329 pages, 111 tables and figures. Worldwide markets are poised to achieve significant growth as data managers move to more cost efficient switching modalities.

New service adoption is being led by Mobile Broadband which has become the most dramatic example of rapid penetration. Mobile Broadband pricing has declined by more than half in real terms during the 3 year period with more broadband capacity being available for the same price.

Roaming prices have confronted criticism in recent years and are undergoing significant changes at this present time. The European Commission has imposed regulation to the pricing of voice roaming charges and it saw the introduction of capped wholesale and retail voice prices for calls made within the EU on 30th August 2007, followed by capped SMS prices in July 2009 and wholesale data prices also in 2009.

This new subscription service called Mobile Africa Tariff Tracker aimed at the fast growing African Mobile segment covers mobile pricing in 37 African countries. It surveys pricing from a total of 72 MNOs in 37 countries across Africa and includes 524 price plans in total – of which 364 are Post Paid contracts and 160 are Pre Paid services in addition to detailed pricing for international calling, roaming and mobile broadband services.

The 52-page report supported with the all the data compared in excel spreadshhet entitled 'The Middle East Mobile Benchmark' provides analysis of voice and data services for both Pre Pay and Post Pay services across 26 MNOs in 13 Middle East countries.

It should be noted that the data used is sourced by TCL from the MNOs themselves and uses selected numbers of Smartphone Mobile Data bundles to illustrate the main trends in Mobile Data packages over time.

This report projects the challenges for telecommunications operators for the 2025 horizon. It analyzes use and market trends as well as ongoing structural changes in the industry to show a long-term vision of the role of operators.

Average revenue per user or other revenue-generating unit is a key metric for any telecom operator. Maintaining or ideally increasing ARPU directly translates into higher levels of profitability and an improved capacity to invest – provided that parameters like SAC, SRC and churn are kept under control.

Terrestrial broadcasting plays a significant role in TV reception... but the UHF (Ultra High Frequency) band is highly coveted by the mobile industry. Hybrid networks could provide an answer to spectrum scarcity in the UHF band. This report presents the most likely scenarios for the UHF band and the role of hybrid networks between now and 2025.

This report provides an in-depth benchmark of 12 major countries regarding the Net Neutrality debate, taking into account discrimination practices, state of regulatory and political debate, stakeholders positions and provides analysis of case studies.

At a time where smartphones paradoxically drive usages and ARPU, but pressure even more operators profitability, IDATE explains the various reasons behind device subsidies. Analyzing the role of smartphone in the changing relationship between MNOs and device vendors, this insight puts device subsidies into perspective and further delivers our views on where the industry is going regarding this thorny issue.

This new market research report forecasts on Distributed Control Systems Market providing complete market figures, consisting market size and estimation by Distributed Control Systems Market application and products depending upon geographical location for the forecasting period 2012 to 2022.

This new market research report forecasts on Enterprise Search Market providing complete market figures, consisting market size and estimation by Enterprise Search Market application and products depending upon geographical location for the forecasting period 2012 to 2022.

This new market research report forecasts on Integrated Systems Market providing complete market figures, consisting market size and estimation by Integrated Systems Market application and products depending upon geographical location for the forecasting period 2012 to 2022.

Today, Voice-over-LTE is slowly emerging at a worldwide level and is only offered by a handful of mobile carriers. This insight presents the state of deployment of this technology, analyses the drivers and hurdles related to VoLTE and presents the likely timetable for VoLTE commercial launch in the different geographical areas.

This yearly report delivers an overview of the latest developments in the spectrum field including the main evolutions of the regulatory framework, spectrum sharing issues and new radio technologies, the 700 MHz band status, mobile spectrum in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific, North and South America, and Africa Middle East, and spectrum valuation.

As the need to deploy superfast systems becomes apparent, telcos are signing more and more cooperation agreement (sharing, pooling, outsourcing) and seeking out new financing models. Based on an analysis of the global marketplace and its players (23 countries, 22 telcos profiled), this report examines fixed and mobile network CAPEX from 2007 to 2012, and analyses why the pace of investment picked up in 2012.

This report analyses the developments in FTTx markets up to 2017. It presents a geographical panorama of FTTx access solutions in Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America, Middle East & Africa. It also includes an overview of the major world leaders as well as a panorama of the superfast broadband markets: Services and tariffs, ARPU growth hypotheses by country, superfast broadband market revenues forecasts.

This market insight – dedicated to the analysis of cloud markets and the resulting business opportunities for telecom operators – spotlights the main concepts of cloud computing and then provides for each cloud market – Personal Cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS – its respective size, structure and key trends. It also benchmarks the involved players – OTT players and telecom operators – and proposes a concept for 3-sided business models to monetize cloud-related services efficiently.

Broadband is not only an end in itself to facilitate some casual browsing, but it is widely regarded as a means to boost productivity and economic growth. Numerous studies have sought to establish the link between the two.

This insight offers an analysis of the LTE device ecosystem in light of baseband market maturity. It presents a review of LTE baseband competition with an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of each major manufacturer. It finally examines next challenges that will affect the further evolution of mobile broadband devices.

This insight provides a complete summary of the status of FTTH/B rollouts in the EU-39 region with a characterisation of each project by: Organisation initiating the project, Key parameters and figures (homes and buildings passed), Technical parameters, financing and business model.

This Market Insight analyses the different pricing strategies of the leading telcos on the LTE market. It presents the IDATE team's expectations and forecasts of the future orientations of the mobile broadband market in the coming year. This Insight is part of our ongoing monitoring LTE Watch

This report provides data and forecasts on the Internet services Markets -uses and revenue, by country and region. It is structured around the following key services: online search, E-Commerce, social networks, online video, mobile apps and LBS, online advertising – both fixed and mobile. It covers Europe, the USA and Asia-Pacific, and analyses the major trends by segment as well as the key players in the market.

This report focuses on the major trends in pricing policy, and highlights innovative strategies. It analyses trends in the mobile market for voice and SMS services, and takes a close look at mobile data services. It also examines pricing strategies for the fixed network market, as well as service bundles.

The concept of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) has become ever more important with the rise of the Internet economy, both fixed and mobile, with the internet titans offering APIs for third party developers to develop upon. Telcos have reacted by building APIs on top of their SDP strategies thus further enlarging the developer platform of these Internet titans.

The telecommunications service market is characterized by different activities like mobile internet, satellite television, cable television, and land line telephones. Telecommunications companies offer their services to every big and small firms ranging from government offices to large corporate units. These companies function in a number of groups like satellite, wireless and wired. Telecommunications sector is observing a shift in market dynamics forces due to evolution of few modern technologies and decline of traditional sections like fixed line communications.

In year 2010, it was described that the worldwide fixed line sector witnessed one percent reduction in telecommunications market growth. By end of year 2015, this market is likely to decline further at rate of five percent earning a total revenue of 524 million US dollars.

A key share of the telecommunications market is held by voice technologies that comprise nearly about fifty seven percent of the total market. The largest share in the telecommunications market is held by USA and the biggest industry player in this market is the NTT group whose headquarters is at Japan.

Today, strong growth figures are registered by broadband telecommunications industry. Satellite broadband activities are predicted to record a growth of six billion US dollars by the end of year 2015. Similarly, the fast emerging market of mobile broadband system is expected to make a growth of 480 billion US dollars in revenue by the end of year 2015.

Another rapidly growing sector within the telecommunications business is internet protocol television that can build on the current infrastructure of broadband technologies and video compression technologies. Region of Asia Pacific Zone is projected to surge ahead of EU in IPTV section.

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